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Matchday 35

After narrowly avoiding the drop over the last three seasons, Sunderland appear to have finally run out of lives as the Black Cats fell in their relegation showdown with Middlesbrough to fall thirteen points from safety as we enter Matchday 35 of the English Premier League. We will still have two additional teams drop down to the Championship before the seasons end, but this week will be focused on the title race and the remaining teams vying for a spot in the top four. With all of the action available live on the NBC family of networks or online at NBC Live Extra, tune in to see where each side will land as we enter the final month of the season.

Sunday (all times eastern)

7am – Swansea City @ Manchester United – Old Trafford, NBC Sports Network

While the title race this season set to go through London, the final place in the top four will likely wind through the town of Manchester, as City and United split the points in a relatively tame Manchester Derby to remain separated by only a point and sitting fourth and fifth place in the table respectively. With City making the trip to an increasingly desperate second from the bottom Middlesbrough, United will know they will have to take all three points if they hope to keep pace with their rivals when they welcome Swansea City to Old Trafford to kick off a busy Sunday slate of fixtures.

The Swans managed to grab all three points for the first time in their last six league games (L5 D1) when they got past Stoke City 2-0, but found themselves still stuck in the bottom three after Hull City pulled off the impossible and shipped two goals past Watford after going down to ten men to move two points clear of the Welsh side and just outside of the relegation zone. They will hope to take advantage of an injury riddled and exhausted United side, who have won the last two meetings between the clubs and four of the last five at Old Trafford (L1), but who will be playing their fourth game in just ten days.

9:05am – Chelsea @ Everton – Goodison Park, NBC Sports Network

Chelsea followed up their weekend victory over Tottenham in the FA Cup semifinals with a convincing 4-2 victory over Southampton in the mid-week to temporarily extend their advantage over the relentless Spurs to seven points in the league table. With a total of twelve points now needed over their final five games to lock up the title, they will face the most difficult fixture remaining on their schedule when they travel to Goodison Park to take on Everton, who remained unbeaten in their last four and with only one loss in their last seven in the league (W4 D2) when they played to a scoreless draw with West Ham.

The Toffees were dismantled 5-0 in the reverse fixture back in November but this time around they get Chelsea at Goodison Park, where they have ripped off eight wins in a row and have won three of the last four meetings with the Blues (L1), and in the midst of a rich vein of form in the seasons second half that has seen them come away empty handed in only two of their fifteen contests and unbeaten in their last three meetings across all competitions with the league leaders, much to Tottenham’s delight coming away with all three points in two of those fixtures.

11:30am – Arsenal @ Spurs – White Hart Lane, NBC Sports Network

After being stymied by an organized Crystal Palace defense for almost eighty minutes, Tottenham finally found the breakthrough they needed with Christian Eriksen’s dipping strike from just outside the penalty area giving Spurs all three points and once again cutting Chelsea’s lead at the top to four points. With the Blues facing a potentially tricky trip to Everton, they will hope to make up ground when they welcome arch rivals Arsenal to White Hart Lane for a massive North London Derby, with the Gunner’s keeping their top four hopes alive with a late 1-0 victory over Leicester City.

After enduring a disastrous start to the New Year in the league and a feeble exit from the Champions League final sixteen for the sixth consecutive season, Arsenal booked their place in the FA Cup final at the weekend and have now won three of their last four in the league (L1). With a game in hand over Manchester United and Manchester City, and two games in hand over third place Liverpool, they will hope to continue their last-ditch effort at a spot in the top four and spoil their arch rivals title aspirations where they have dropped only one of their last four visits across town (W2 D1).

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Everton vs. Chelsea - Over 2.5 (-127)

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Love that over, was on it already and will add to it knowing you are on it too.

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